Trusting & Letting Go of Fear

I was talking to a friend recently and we got off on a common topic-Fear. Now you might think Fear is not the best subject to engage about in a conversation, however, these days it seems to be pretty prevalent wherever you look.

Think about it. We all know it’s the media’s job to scare us which they then use to manipulate us into whatever cattle chute they wish. Then there’s the advertisements. I’ve started a game to watch or read an ad to see what it is they are trying to scare me with so I’ll buy their product. It’s a fun game, actually. I find some are pretty easy to figure out. However, some about medicines with all those speedily read side-effects do leave me aghast, but then sad to think there are people who are going to use them hoping for positive results no matter the side effects.

Another aspect is the weather person. Warns us about storms, prepare for floods or sunny days, be sure and put on enough sun screen. I appreciate the weather person but yep, can’t say I feel better after listening to them. Don’t even get me started about food or cosmetic commercials.

Where this is all leading to is how we are programmed to live in Fear. Maybe not you, but I sure have fallen for a lot of society’s tricks to keep me in Fear. Luckily, one great thing about aging, for me at least, is I have learned to shut off a lot of the noise. For example, I find I don’t worry that much what people think about how I dress. I dress how I like. I like to look cool but I can be the greatest slob in the world when I’m working in the yard. Truly I am the average jeans and t-shirt kind of gal.

I like to think that since I have chosen to belong to the metaphysical/spiritual world’s life and letting loose of past daily needs to fulfill some beck and call of society, I would be close to letting go of Fear. You know what? It’s not as easy as that sounds. I listen to so many youTube videos about dear Gaia’s future, even that Gaia might not be sticking around, and what all the medium’s, psychics, astrologers, newscasts, etc. are saying can scare the pants off you.

But should it? I was finding my stomach getting more and more upset and thought it might be the hydrogen water I was drinking. After all, a side-effect was upset stomach. So I stopped drinking so much of it. My stomach got better but it was still irritating me somewhat. Earlier this week I stopped in my tracks to see if I could feel what was taking me into stomach problems. And it was just plain Fear.

Fears I didn’t think were on my radar. I was afraid I wasn’t going to live up to the expectations of my friends concerning my spiritual gifts. I was afraid the things I was doing-my sessions, the channeling, etc.-were all phony. It didn’t stop there. I kept following that Fear thread and there was my Fear of financial insecurity rearing it’s ugly head. That one I had fought my whole life and thought I had it under control. It is, thanks to a friend, but it must have wanted to make an appearance just for the heck of it.

Fear of running out of toilet paper found it’s way on my list. I started thinking of tires for my car and gas for the lawn mower. Letting myself go with the flow found the What Ifs pop up and I just let it flow out of me like a river after a rain storm. And with it the stress of all of it and at the end of the trail I heard the word . . . Trust.

Yes, a wave of peace washed over me, my shoulders relaxed and I could feel the knots in my stomach untie themselves. Trust. In what? For me the answer is the God of my Understanding.* You can call that energy anything you want.

I wondered since I believe in a soul contract/soul’s purpose, how God might fit in that scenario, but it’s quite easy. Even if dealing with these Fears is part of my growth factor this lifetime, asking Source, Creator, God, Allah, etc. for help can always be part of a solution. So I decided to write about it and realized the FEAR*/** I was facing is actually nothing to Fear.

A favorite slogan I used to use constantly popped up in my memory banks, Let Go and Let God.* For short I would say, “LEGA LEGA,” so no one need really know what I was doing. Well, I said it again that morning when Fear was hitting me smack in the stomach. Once I realized that Fear had it’s nasty little tentacles in me again, I pulled out the Big Guns and almost shouted, “LEGA LEGA!” I knew Divine Oneness, Source, would be there to help. Even if you don’t believe in something like that you can simply say “Help,” and it will come. I quietly turned and faced what was now just a little fear. Knowing it had lost it’s power, it backed off and faded away.

Immediately I understood. My real problem, actually, is remembering to use the tools I’ve learned along the way to get me through life. I think we would all agree life right now on Earth is rather crazy and fear and hate have found their way into our lives in ways we never would have imagined back in the day.

But we don’t have to play the game and ride the slide. We can shake it off, rattle around in literally what there is in front of us to do and roll around in the love that is Always the answer. Our higher selves, guardian angels, whatever you like to think, have our backs when we ask for help and their favorite thing is to wrap us in the love, joy and peace that is our true right.

So if, as you read this, you begin to identify fear breaking out, call in your troops with their armor of power packed love, light, joy and peace. Let No Fear become your mantra. Then face forward, shoulders back, heads held high and laugh your way into the day.

Roda Grubb

Still Asking, Still Learning, Still Becoming

*Sayings learned from AlAnon

** False Events Appearing Real